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1 These
are the inheritances
which the children
of Israel took
in the land of
Canaan, which Eleazar
the priest, Joshua
the son of
Nun, and the
heads of
the fathers’ houses of
the tribes of
the children of
Israel, distributed
to them,
2 by
the lot of
their inheritance,
as the LORD
commanded by Moses,
for the nine
tribes, and for
the half-tribe.
3 For
Moses had given
the inheritance of
the two tribes
and the half-tribe
beyond the Jordan;
but to the
Levites he gave
no inheritance
among them.
4 For
the children of
Joseph were two
tribes, Manasseh
and Ephraim. They
gave no portion
to the Levites
in the land,
except cities to
dwell in, with
their pasture
lands for their
livestock and for
their property.
5 The
children of Israel
did as the
LORD commanded
Moses, and they
divided the land.
6 Then
the children of
Judah came near
to Joshua in
Gilgal. Caleb the
son of Jephunneh
the Kenizzite said
to him, “You
know the thing
that the LORD
spoke to Moses
the man of
God concerning me
and concerning you
in Kadesh Barnea.
7 I
was forty years
old when Moses
the servant of
the LORD sent
me from Kadesh Barnea
to spy out
the land. I
brought him word
again as it
was in my
heart.
8 Nevertheless,
my brothers who
went up with
me made the
heart of the
people melt; but
I wholly followed
the LORD my
God.
9 Moses
swore on that
day, saying, ‘Surely
the land where
you walked shall
be an inheritance
to you and
to your children
forever, because
you have wholly
followed the LORD
my God.’
10 “Now,
behold, the LORD
has kept me
alive, as he
spoke, these forty-five
years, from the
time that the
LORD spoke this
word to Moses,
while Israel
walked in the
wilderness. Now,
behold, I am
eighty-five years
old, today.
11 As
yet I am as
strong today as
I was in
the day that
Moses sent me.
As my strength
was then, even
so is my
strength now for
war, to go
out and to
come in.
12 Now
therefore give me
this hill country,
of which the
LORD spoke in
that day; for
you heard in
that day how
the Anakim were
there, and great
and fortified
cities. It may
be that the
LORD will be
with me, and
I shall drive
them out, as
the LORD said.”
13 Joshua
blessed him; and
he gave Hebron
to Caleb the
son of Jephunneh
for an inheritance.
14 Therefore
Hebron became the
inheritance of
Caleb the son
of Jephunneh the
Kenizzite to this
day, because he
followed the LORD,
the God of
Israel wholeheartedly.
15 Now
the name of
Hebron before
was Kiriath Arba, after
the greatest man
among the Anakim.
Then the land had
rest from war.